Political Science
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America
The triumph of the conservative movement in reshaping American politics is one of the great untold stories of the past fifty years.
The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections
Who will determine what Americans are thinking when they cast their votes in the year 2000? Martin Plissner, former political director of CBS News, has played a central role in the network coverage of every presidential campaign since 1964.
Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation
Before he was voted into office, Bill Clinton told the authors in an interview that he wanted to be a transforming leader, a president who would fashion real and lasting change in peoples' lives, in the tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, at once far-seeing and brilliantly readable, America's most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in this new millennium.
Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade
This is the story of five conservative activists from the baby-boom generation - Bill Kristol, Ralph Reed, Clint Bolick, Grover Norquist, and David McIntosh - who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against everything "sixties" and went on to overturn the political dynami
Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born.
The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words
As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize "the greatest city in the world". Never one to pull punches, he did things the way they had to be done, not the way everyone else thought they should be done.
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever.
Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare.
In Praise of Public Life
In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the most articulate and respected of our politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the privilege of public life in the face of Americans' perennial cynicism about it.